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Test 9 · ★★ · Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and gi…

«how can the biggest living thing be a fungus if I can't even see it?» What is the answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: biggest living thing, I, answer · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: fungus, thing

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 252 «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: «how can the biggest living thing be a fungus if I can't even see it?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 fungus	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 fungus	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fungus	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 thing	amod
6	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fungus	nsubj
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fungus	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fungus	det
10	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 see	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 see	advmod
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 see	advmod
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fungus	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 see	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 fungus	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 fungus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	can	the biggest living thing	a fungus					tree rules
2	not see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	I	thing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What is the answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 answer	det
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

It is see-through like glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 through	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 through	cop
3	see	see	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 through	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 through	punct
5	through	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 glass	case
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 through	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					like glass; thorough property	tree rules

Option 2

It only comes out on dark nights when nobody is about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 comes	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 nights	case
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nights	amod
7	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 comes	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 about	advmod
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 about	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 about	cop
11	about	about	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	It				night		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	nobody					about property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Most of it is threads hidden under the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 threads	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Most	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 threads	cop
5	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 threads	acl
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Most of it	threads					tree rules
2	hide	participle		threads not said here		the ground			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under ground=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It moves far too fast for anyone to see it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moves	nsubj
2	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fast	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 moves	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 moves	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 moves	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	It					for anyone; fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive		it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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